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Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, [1] eventually writing more than a hundred books. [2]
The Essential Colin Wilson (1985) Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985) Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence of Life After Death (1985) An Encyclopedia of Scandal. Edited by Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman (1986) The Book of Great Mysteries. Edited by Colin Wilson and Dr. Christopher Evans (1986), ISBN 0948164263
The Occult: A History is a 1971 nonfiction occult book by English writer, Colin Wilson. Topics covered include Aleister Crowley , George Gurdjieff , Helena Blavatsky , Kabbalah , primitive magic, Franz Mesmer , Grigori Rasputin , Daniel Dunglas Home , Paracelsus , P. D. Ouspensky , William Blake , Giacomo Casanova , Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ...
It remains one of Colin Wilson's best novels to date." [1] In his 1982 book The Novels of Colin Wilson, Nicolas Tredell also made comparisons to The Mind Parasites, and wrote that "The Philosopher's Stone is a much more substantial and, in some ways, more satisfactory novel". He criticized the second part of the novel: "With two higher men on ...
The Mammoth Book of True Crime is a two volume anthology by British author Colin Wilson. It was published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, in 1988. [1] [2] [3] The first volume is divided alphabetically into sections that reflect the various aspects of crime.
In his introduction to The Philosopher's Stone (1969), Wilson explained how he wrote The Mind Parasites at the urging of August Derleth.Wilson had earlier written an essay explaining his admiration for Lovecraft as a thinker or conceptualist, while also expressing a dislike for Lovecraft's prose as ungainly and ponderous.
Armstrong, 36, fatally shot Wilson on 11 May 2022 after the two women reportedly became involved in a love triangle with Armstrong’s then-boyfriend Colin Strickland. Wilson’s family embraced ...
American author John Peyton Cooke wrote a fictionalized account of the murders in his novel Torsos, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for 1993, [49] [50] [51] and was noted by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review for its atmospheric depiction of Cleveland, Ohio, during the Great Depression.